Salvatore Barbaro
Biographic Data
| ID | 4378576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Salvatore Barbaro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Salvatore |
| FAMILY NAME | Barbaro |
| SIGNATURE | BARBARO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4203-7595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Election methods and political polarization
What Explains German Länder Governments’ Stances Towards Federalism
In federal systems, subnational governments often take highly asymmetric positions on questions of self-rule and shared rule. The German case is emblematic of this dynamic, as some state governments assert their primary role in legislative functions while others highlight the benefits of coordinated and uniform decision-making. Although the existing literature recognizes these differences, it often fails to fully disentangle the underlying reason…
On the prevalence of Condorcet’s paradox
The Condorcet paradox has been a significant focus of investigation since Duncan Black and Kenneth Arrow rediscovered its importance for economic and political theory. Recent research on this phenomenon has oscillated between simulation studies, probability calculations based on hypothetical voter preferences, and empirical analyses of single election studies. This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of 253 electoral polls conducted across …
Autonomy and accountability: Strategic behaviour of German state leaders during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study examines the strategic and opportunistic behaviour of state officials in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on 600 statements by state incumbents, we provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of state-level political behaviour. Our findings show that German regional leaders emphasised their autonomy when performance metrics were favourable (credit-claiming), but strategically shifted responsibility when outcomes were less f…
Rethinking Germany's Debt Brake: The Amortisation of Emergency Loans
Germany's debt brake faced significant challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic and now faces public criticism. The Federal Constitutional Court invalidated the 2021 federal budget due to unlawful attempts to bypass the debt brake. In early 2024, the Board of Economic Advisers reignited debate with reform proposals, including modifying the prompt repayment requirement for emergency loans, which are currently not promptly repaid. Implementing the B…
Condorcet Method, Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives, and the Size of the Bundestag
How should an excessively large parliament be effectively reduced in size without violating constitutional principles? This is a question that the German Bundestag has discussed since the introduction of the 2013 electoral reform measure. Facing a Bundestag consisting of 709 members and some public dissatisfaction, a reform measure to decrease the parliament's size was adopted in 2020. However, the 20 Bundestag, elected in September 2021, again i…
Plurality Rule, Majority Principle and Indeterminacy in German Elections
In German federal elections, district representatives are chosen by plurality rule - a voting system that can fail to select the Condorcet winner. With heightened party system fragmentation, violations of the Condorcet criterion may become increasingly frequent. In light of the »horseshoe theory«, it also becomes questionable whether Condorcet winners exist in the first place. In this study, we simulate preference orderings over district candidat…
Price-shifting fungibility
Unconditional intergovernmental grants are popular with economists but increasingly rarely observed in practice. Conversely, earmarking grants became a common form of the centres’ support to states in federalist countries, though they are seriously flawed by welfare loss induced by the intended reallocation of states’ provision of goods and services. Conditional grants bring states’ governments a dilemma: intergovernmental grants increase states’…
On the dispensability of run-off elections
Voting on income tax exemptions
The Distributional Impact of Subsidies to Higher Education - Empirical Evidence from Germany
This paper presents empirical evidence on the distributional effect of public higher education through analysis of a cross-sectional view of West Germany in 1997. In contrast to a widely held hypothesis in economics, our findings do not show evidence for a regressive effect. The use of a net-transfer calculation clearly indicates a progressive distributional effect of the benefits from subsidization - at least when viewed in the cross-sectional p…
Condorcet Method, Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives, and the Size of the Bundestag
How should an excessively large parliament be effectively reduced in size without violating constitutional principles? This is a question that the German Bundestag has discussed since the introduction of the 2013 electoral reform measure. Facing a Bundestag consisting of 709 members and some public dissatisfaction, a reform measure to decrease the parliament's size was adopted in 2020. However, the 20 Bundestag, elected in September 2021, again i…
What Explains German Länder Governments’ Stances Towards Federalism
In federal systems, subnational governments often take highly asymmetric positions on questions of self-rule and shared rule. The German case is emblematic of this dynamic, as some state governments assert their primary role in legislative functions while others highlight the benefits of coordinated and uniform decision-making. Although the existing literature recognizes these differences, it often fails to fully disentangle the underlying reason…
On the dispensability of run-off elections
Voting on income tax exemptions
The Distributional Impact of Subsidies to Higher Education - Empirical Evidence from Germany
This paper presents empirical evidence on the distributional effect of public higher education through analysis of a cross-sectional view of West Germany in 1997. In contrast to a widely held hypothesis in economics, our findings do not show evidence for a regressive effect. The use of a net-transfer calculation clearly indicates a progressive distributional effect of the benefits from subsidization - at least when viewed in the cross-sectional p…
Voting on income tax exemptions
On the dispensability of run-off elections
Price-shifting fungibility
Unconditional intergovernmental grants are popular with economists but increasingly rarely observed in practice. Conversely, earmarking grants became a common form of the centres’ support to states in federalist countries, though they are seriously flawed by welfare loss induced by the intended reallocation of states’ provision of goods and services. Conditional grants bring states’ governments a dilemma: intergovernmental grants increase states’…
Plurality Rule, Majority Principle and Indeterminacy in German Elections
In German federal elections, district representatives are chosen by plurality rule - a voting system that can fail to select the Condorcet winner. With heightened party system fragmentation, violations of the Condorcet criterion may become increasingly frequent. In light of the »horseshoe theory«, it also becomes questionable whether Condorcet winners exist in the first place. In this study, we simulate preference orderings over district candidat…
Rethinking Germany's Debt Brake: The Amortisation of Emergency Loans
Germany's debt brake faced significant challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic and now faces public criticism. The Federal Constitutional Court invalidated the 2021 federal budget due to unlawful attempts to bypass the debt brake. In early 2024, the Board of Economic Advisers reignited debate with reform proposals, including modifying the prompt repayment requirement for emergency loans, which are currently not promptly repaid. Implementing the B…
Condorcet Method, Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives, and the Size of the Bundestag
How should an excessively large parliament be effectively reduced in size without violating constitutional principles? This is a question that the German Bundestag has discussed since the introduction of the 2013 electoral reform measure. Facing a Bundestag consisting of 709 members and some public dissatisfaction, a reform measure to decrease the parliament's size was adopted in 2020. However, the 20 Bundestag, elected in September 2021, again i…
Election methods and political polarization
What Explains German Länder Governments’ Stances Towards Federalism
In federal systems, subnational governments often take highly asymmetric positions on questions of self-rule and shared rule. The German case is emblematic of this dynamic, as some state governments assert their primary role in legislative functions while others highlight the benefits of coordinated and uniform decision-making. Although the existing literature recognizes these differences, it often fails to fully disentangle the underlying reason…
On the prevalence of Condorcet’s paradox
The Condorcet paradox has been a significant focus of investigation since Duncan Black and Kenneth Arrow rediscovered its importance for economic and political theory. Recent research on this phenomenon has oscillated between simulation studies, probability calculations based on hypothetical voter preferences, and empirical analyses of single election studies. This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of 253 electoral polls conducted across …
Autonomy and accountability: Strategic behaviour of German state leaders during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study examines the strategic and opportunistic behaviour of state officials in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on 600 statements by state incumbents, we provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of state-level political behaviour. Our findings show that German regional leaders emphasised their autonomy when performance metrics were favourable (credit-claiming), but strategically shifted responsibility when outcomes were less f…
Economics (6 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · European Monetary and Fiscal Policies (3 works) · Game Theory and Voting Systems (3 works) · German (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Public finance (3 works)